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Madonna has been pictured strolling around New York City and visiting a fashion exhibition with friends just one day before she was 'found unresponsive' and had to be rushed to the ICU, where she was reportedly 'intubated' with a serious bacterial infection.
In exclusive images obtained by DailyMail.com, the 64-year-old singer is seen visiting the Karl Lagerfeld exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan with her assistant and one of her dancers - just hours before she is said to have 'collapsed'.
Although Madonna appears relaxed and comfortable in the images - in which she is seen wearing an incognito ensemble of sweatpants, sneakers, sunglasses, and a baseball cap - sources today claimed to TMZ that the singer was 'battling a low-grade fever for a month' before her shock hospitalization.
According to the outlet, the pop icon 'mostly ignored her symptoms and never got checked out by a doctor because she was laser focused on her upcoming tour', which she has been forced to postpone as a result of her health struggles.
'We're told her doctors believe the unreported fever was a sign of the infection, which worsened because it was left untreated,' TMZ claims, adding that the singer's medical team - as well as 'those around her' are concerned that she will 'go against doctors' orders and push to start her tour ASAP'.
Madonna has been pictured strolling around New York City and visiting a fashion exhibition with friends just one day before she was 'found unresponsive' and had to be rushed to the ICU
In exclusive images obtained by DailyMail.com, the 64-year-old singer is seen visiting the Karl Lagerfeld exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum with her assistant and one of her dancer
Madonna has certainly been following a rigorous rehearsal schedule in the lead-up to her tour, with her former back-up dancer, Jose Xtravaganza, telling DailyMail.com that the mother-of-six has been rehearsing for six days a week for months in order to ensure that every element of the Celebration shows are perfect.
'Rehearsals are six days a week from what I hear... the only day off is Sunday,' Jose - who choreographed Madonna's iconic Vogue music video - said.
'I think it's gonna be a great show, full of costume. There's a lot of dancing going on. The dance troupe is large. When we went on tour, it was just seven of us. I think now there's, there's at least anywhere from 15 to 20 of them.
'They are trained in different fields of dance different types of artistic expression to be to be shown in the show. I believe there's gonna be like a lot of martial arts like boxing. She’s very into boxing and things like that. So I think she's going to revisit a lot of those things that she's shown in the past. It’s definitely not to be missed.'
In April, an insider revealed to DailyMail.com that Madonna had been 'driving everyone up the wall with her perfectionism' in the lead-up to the hotly-anticipated tour, saying: 'It may be her last tour, so she wants to make it perfect. She is incredible shape and her body is sick.
'This is her labor of love. Her perfectionism is driving everyone up the wall but she does not care. The crew is working their a** off because everyone wants to make her happy.
'She has no issues whatsoever with firing someone at the drop of a hat.'
Madonna has yet to publicly comment on her hospitalization - which was revealed to the world by her longtime manager Guy Oseary in an Instagram post on
